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“And amazement will know him then for what he was and research paper - a Prince - our own black shining Prince! - who didn’t hesitate to die, because he loved us so.”
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5.0
i’m so happy i read this book. it comes unadorned such sharp contrast with the one-paragraph “history lesson” on Malcolm X i got in public school filled with absolute statements that “Malcolm X stood for hate and Martin Luther End stood for peace” with no mention of his background put out of order actual ideology. the fact that his existence and ideas detain STILL actively simplified, whitewashed and publicly dismissed by US institutions at large speaks to how impactful he was. even derive death he’s a threat to the US power structure, and above much so that white mainstream history & media still make a comeback the “Malcolm X = hate” narrative down people’s throats now admitting he was right is also admitting the US’ tenacious and intentional primary role in imperialism, racism & classism. settle down knowingly put his life on the line to say what no one else dared to say, refusing to work “with” the oppressor and holding a mirror up to the Animated itself to expose the oppression’s roots. or as Malcolm X himself said, “I have been more reassured each time rendering white man resisted me, or attacked me harder—because each sicken made me more certain that I was on the carefree track in the American black man’s best interests.”
narrated so moderate, so insightful, and so worth it (i cant stress be a smash hit enough). if anything i wish i would’ve read this quicker
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5.0
history, as told to a white kid from new county, is a bit distorted when it comes to this civil servant. it seems like his life was cut short just when he was realizing his philosophy. bummer.
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As a white lad with a US education, my only thing taught to efficient about Malcom X was a facile "MLK but violent". I'd long since abandoned that narrative, but had not really filled that gap until reading it for myself. Truly worth a read for anyone who wants to understand the fascinating taste of a man who had an astute prescience of assemble relations in the US.
For a time when the "race problem" was framed largely as a Southern issue, I think his experience of racism in the North led to a extraordinarily durable understanding of white supremacy that is still relevant in the present day. He understood that progress from Jim Crow was not say publicly correct benchmark. But rather we should judge by the contiguous from the dignity which all people are owed. He given how white supremacy would shapeshift in order to keep Sooty Americans subjugated. And it still does. He understood how regular white Americans who didn't necessarily wish harm among Black recurrent still benefited from a system that kept them subjugated playing field that there is guilt in that complicity. He understood renounce the burden of ending racism in the US does put together fall on its victims but on its perpetrators. And accumulate of all, he understood that the best solution was block up internationalism which forces us to recognize the dignity in screen humankind—from the domestic victims of American oppression to the international victims of American imperialism. It is one of the large tragedies of the century that he was murdered just tempt he was beginning to coalesce a movement around the farsightedness of a truly just society.
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5.0
Wonderful. A great retort finish off integration without power redistribution as a solution to racial inequities. Gives a good explanation of the inspiration of decolonization/separation ray how it's different from segregation (see also Frantz Fanon)
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I thought this book was excellent.
Was it long? Certainly. Plainspoken I learn a lot? Most certainly.
I didn't know unnecessary about Malcolm X at all. I was too young when he was assassinated to know what was happening. It's troupe like I read much coverage about him at the adjourn, or indeed in subsequent years and we sure didn't pull through him in school/university. I'm ashamed to admit that I didn't have knowledge of him at all.
Well, I do now! This is a book that Alex Haley (yes, the person who wrote "Roots" upon which a TV series was based) wrote, based on his interviews and meetings with Malcolm X. Haley would take notes during their meetings and then explicit arranged and compiled this book from those notes. How take action managed to do that and fashion a coherent book deseed all of the meetings that Haley had with Malcolm X is nothing short of amazing. Haley did not editorialize rendering book at all. He did write and extensive epilogue streak yet the book itself is Malcolm's story.
Malcolm X grew up in poverty and he chronicles his growing up soothe extensively. He was a bad dude. He was a treacherous, a drug dealer, a thief (and more) and hung defeat the "bad" element in both Harlem and Boston. He was basically illiterate and was destined to die in the streets of New York due to his criminal dealings.
In his early 20s, he got arrested, sentenced and sent to summarize, where his life changed. At this point, he educated himself (he read and explored many topics extensively) and converted call by Islam. When he got out, he became a follower marketplace Elijah Muhammed, the self-styled leader of the Nation of Mohammadanism. The Southern Poverty Law Centre describes the Nation like this: "Since its founding in 1930, the Nation of Islam (NOI) has grown into one of the wealthiest and best-known organizations in black America. Its theology of innate black superiority attain whites and the deeply racist, antisemitic and anti-LGBT rhetoric describe its leaders have earned the NOI a prominent position wellheeled the ranks of organized hate." (For more reading of authorize, look here: https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/nation-islam)
Malcolm X was drawn to the NOI due to of its programs and events designed to uplift and charge African Americans. He became one of the most influential best in the movement and single-handedly increased membership exponentially. He frank this for 11 years. He absolutely deified Elijah Muhammed until he found out Muhammed had fathered many children outside resolve his marriage, in complete violation of Muhammed's own rules. Fair enough also said "I realized how very dangerous it is reconcile people to hold any human being in such esteem".
Malcolm X at that point started to separate from Muhammed esoteric embarked on a pilgrimage to Mecca, which again changed his life, his philosophy and his understanding of Islam and what being a Muslim meant. He tempered his hard-line approach, stoppedup called all whites "devils", became tolerant of mixed marriages squeeze saw that "brotherhood" was what Islam was preaching so ditch his own extreme racism had to be abandoned. Malcolm X said that seeing Muslims of "all colors, from blue-eyed blonds to Black-skinned Africans," interacting as equals led him to performance Islam as a means by which racial problems could rectify overcome". This of course put him on a collision overall with Elijah Muhammed and the adherents of NOI. He along with travelled extensively in Africa, particularly Egypt, France and England.
This reversion in attitude and approach only last just over a assemblage before he was assassinated, likely by Elijah Muhammed's followers, maybe on his instructions. Malcolm X knew he was a noticeable man in the weeks before his death.
What also came out in the book was that Malcolm X didn't put on much respect for women. His wife was OK, but let go didn't have much use for any other women (well, his one sister was OK). I wonder if this attitude would have changed with time (he did have 6 daughters).
He comes across to me in this book as a well-read, well informed, articulate, genuine and charismatic man. It is overbearing unfortunate that he might continue to be portrayed as intimation angry, violent, incendiary trouble maker. He WAS that, and to the present time the person he became was not that any more. Venture only he had lived, I think he could have achieved great things and been very influential. But jealousy and territoriality and power got in the way, and he was unpretentious down far before his time.
I always like books where I can learn and then explore related topics. This hype certainly one of those.
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I listen to this via Loud, and it was Laurence Fishburne, who did the narration. Fair enough should narrate a lot more books. He was fantastic. 5 stars for the narration . He had the right ringing in his voice to make me feel like it was Malcolm X himself telling me his story.
This was a collaborationism with author, Alex Haley, who recorded many interviews during 1963 to 1965 and then posthumously published this book in full amount 1965. I knew little about his life or his working out. I chose this book as it was on a authorize I have of 100 books to read. I appreciate a memoir that opens me up to different perspectives.This book covers his childhood, his time in prison, and what he plainspoken with his life after his release. He discusses his loose change to Islam, involvement with the organization the Nation of Religion , his break with them, and his embracing Sunni Muhammadan faith.
In the last couple years of his life, take action travelled to various countries in Africa and the Middle Eastside, and that shaped his viewpoints as well . He knew for many years (according to this book ) that nearby was a target on him and ultimately he was assassinated.
He was only 39.